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by bdunbar 12y ago
Be happy. The printer you had to buy last month to replace the printer you bought last year because the toner costs _more_ than a new printer is a lot better than the one you had three years ago. There is this: the toys we're making n
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Sure, there is a cost. Which is offset by recycling. If we all switched, tomorrow, to using long-lived appliances and goods, we'd pay higher costs for _new_ manufactured goods because their a whole lot of their inputs comes from recyc
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Wild: When I moved last year I made .. well not a lot but a fair bit hauling my own junk to the scrap yard. When it was time to scrap the computer equipment I would have profited from that, too, if not for the CRTs. Those I would have been
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by bdunbar 12y ago
If they're cheap, who cares that they don't last past the warranty expiration? My aunt's first microwave cost a fortune in the early 70s - a month's salary, easy. I can buy one at Wal-Mart today for $60.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Eh. I've repaired a few modern appliances, worked on a 2003, 2001, model cars. Washer was a cinch, thanks to the repair manual (found online). The only difficult bit is diagnosing the car [1] was the makers assumed I'd have a di
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by bdunbar 12y ago
I don't know about you, but when I have junk like a washer, I haul that sucker down to the scrap yard for cash. Where it is scraped and mostly recycled. Is re-use figured into your environmental calculations?
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by bdunbar 12y ago
That is contrary to the stereotype I have of organizations like that. Hiring managers need to filter out somehow. I know a guy who gives explicit - but not difficult - instructions for applicants. Anything not following the instructions g
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Yup. That's a reason why I'm a big fan of the High Frontier, space exploration, and settlement. So when something goes boom, here, there will be some people, elsewhere, to help rebuild. Worst case, the species will carry on.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
"I suppose workers need to assume" We use hipchat at work. I've been assuming since day one my employer can read everything I write. They are _paying_ for it after all.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Well, we also didn't have the Cold War go hot. Win some, loose some.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
This is true. But the requirement to arrive 90 minutes before departure time is not a problem with the vehicle but the bureaucracy and security apparatus around it. True Story: while I like to arrive well before a flight (just in case) when
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by bdunbar 13y ago
The author mentioned 'toilets'. I have a hard time seeing why a simple, reliable, thing like a handle needs to be replaced with 'toilet flush' or 'toilet, clean' or the sure to be popular 'toilet, air fres
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by bdunbar 13y ago
"does that coarsen pet owners? I don't know. Maybe it does" Perhaps I've been coarsened. Having the grit to do the right thing by one's dog is part of being an adult.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Not where I'm at, nor at my last job. At Last Employer it was true in the old building, where the floor plan was laid out in the late 90s. When we moved to our new building, interior spaces were meeting rooms. Next layer out were man
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by bdunbar 13y ago
I have a use case. It's 'niche' but that's where I have been working for almost a year. In the legal field there are a scatload of organizations that process data. Data is moved by FTP or SFTP. It's organized by
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Which is why Amazon AWS is available in Europe. Which is _great_ because we're going after the EU market in a little bit.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
We have a use-case down at the office. Some of what we do is processing legal files. This involves managing 'our' ftp site, provided by the vendor. Turns out this is a 'windows' server, connected via iscsi, to a director
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> The people have the government departments they deserve. Yeah - and they inflict it on the rest of us.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> to any of Bloomberg's current customers. I'm not the only person to have thought about this - what about new guys who can use 'a Bloomberg' but can't afford the price? Is there a way forward for these guys to
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> The more raw/command/shell modules you have to use Yeah, that's a problem. It's gotten a lot better with the 1.5 release. Example: we just made the light-speed jump from 1.1 to 1.5. While re-doing a role yesterday
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Use case: Abe is able to shell into host A and host B. He wants to transfer a file to B but he's being watched by [NSA, SMERSH, his boss]. Not airtight, but ... something like that?
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by bdunbar 13y ago
My own place that I can maintain, decorate and arrange how I like, walk around without worrying about my state of dress, cook what I please, keep the joint vermin free. Vs. Living with a bunch of scruffy fellows who can't, or won'
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by bdunbar 13y ago
When the Air Force first wanted to retire the A-10, there was an article [1] proposal: Give the A-10s to the Marine Corps. Even if the machine could not be retrofitted for carrier operations, the Corps could fly them from airfields ashore,
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by bdunbar 13y ago
A use case (warning I've not thought his out very deeply) Abe has shell access via 'ssh' to Server. He wishes Bob and Carol to have access to the server but for whatever reason they don't have SSH. Abe shells in, does t
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Because no one has mentioned it yet: 'Blindsight' by Peter Watts.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> why not print the serial numbers inside the tank I think by serial number you mean the unit number and markings stenciled on the tank? Something like 'C Co/5th Bn/377th Rgt' Because friendly soldiers need to eyebal
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Planes don't really fall out of the sky either I did not intend that metaphor to be literal.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> The death rate for yatch sailing is way below that of general aviation. Oh, sure. I'm personally aware of only one yacht casualty, and that was sudden and unexpected. The boat jibed while the fellow was standing, the boom swept
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> except you die if you screw up. That happens with boats, too. Perhaps not as often - boats don't fall out of the sky when they stop working - but it happens.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
I work at a startup. But I've got mixed feelings about this. My last gig was at a mid-sized manufacturer. We bought a reasonably expensive product from a startup. We bought installation, and support. Worked for me: I didn't hav

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